Small Fiasco by Ellen Ferguson

Ellen is in the process of moving to Manhattan with her cockapoo Bailey and her cats Fiona and Cinnamon. In her free time she sits around remembering when her children, Nash, Anna and Zoe, were small. She is glad they are big now and she is proud of them. Ellen has written nonfiction for years, including a self-published book, Can Creativity Be Taught? McSweeney’s Internet Tendency published 18 nonfiction columns of hers under the title “Diversity in the News.” Kugelmass, A Journal of Literary Humor, published her humorous nonfiction essay “Tina Fey Ruined my Beach Vacation.” Finishing Line Press published Small Fiasco this year, a book of poetry she wrote mostly made up of Tupelo 30/30 poems. She wrote a novel called Demo Queen, in case you are interested in publishing it. Her co-written screenplay “Demo Queen” won a small honorable mention for humor. She also wrote a humorous screenplay called “Phone Boy.” Currently she is polishing a completed book of short stories, Life Imitates. Works in progress include a biography of the legendary cake designer Colette Peters told as a story of cake work and the changes in that industry. She is also turning her Ph.D. dissertation into a book called Coke and Work: Notes Towards a Poetics of Comfort, an academic reading of the poetry of Frank O’Hara and Philip Levine.